Annual Review of Psychology articles from January 1 2000

Annual Review of Psychology archives from January 1 2000

PREFACE.
January 1, 2000... Fall in New England makes transitions salient, and the incoming editorial team salutes the outgoing editorial team, who served admirably for five years: Janet Spence, as Editor, with John Darley and Donald Foss as Associate Editors. That team...

PARENTING AND ITS EFFECTS ON CHILDREN: On Reading and Misreading Behavior Genetics.
January 1, 2000... Abstract There is clear evidence that parents can and do influence children. There is equally clear evidence that children's genetic makeup affects their own behavioral characteristics, and also influences the way they are treated by their...

THE PAIN OF BEING SICK: Implications of Immune-to-Brain Communication for Understanding Pain.
January 1, 2000... Key Words review, interleukin-1, tumor necrosis factor, nerve growth factor, hyperalgesia, allodynia Abstract This review focuses on the powerful pain facilitatory effects produced by the immune system. Immune cells, activated in response...

THOUGHT SUPPRESSION.
January 1, 2000... Key Words mental control, intrusive thought, rebound effect, ironic processes Abstract Although thought suppression is a popular form of mental control, research has indicated that it can be counterproductive, helping assure the very state...

SOCIAL COGNITION: Thinking Categorically about Others.
January 1, 2000... Key Words automaticity, inhibition, memory, stereotypes, person perception Abstract In attempting to make sense of other people, perceivers regularly construct and use categorical representations to simplify and streamline the person...

ARE THERE KINDS OF CONCEPTS?
January 1, 2000... Key Words categorization, cognitive processes, mental representation, domain specificity Abstract Past research on concepts has focused almost exclusively on noun-object concepts. This paper discusses recent research demonstrating that...

NEW PERSPECTIVES AND EVIDENCE ON POLITICAL COMMUNICATION AND CAMPAIGN EFFECTS.
January 1, 2000... Key Words politics, campaigns, elections, review Abstract We review recent empirical evidence that shows political campaigns are more potent than widely believed, focusing on the conceptual and methodological advances that have produced...

GOAL THEORY, MOTIVATION, AND SCHOOL ACHIEVEMENT: An Integrative Review.
January 1, 2000... Key Words self-worth, school reform, self-processes, self-protective mechanisms Abstract The purpose of this review is to document the directions and recent progress in our understanding of the motivational dynamics of school achievement....

APPLICATIONS OF STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING IN PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH.
January 1, 2000... Key Words structural equation models, covariance structures, LISREL Abstract This chapter presents a review of applications of structural equation modeling (SEM) published in psychological research journals in recent years. We focus first...

THE ENVIRONMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY OF CAPSULE HABITATS.
January 1, 2000... Key Words isolation, confinement, unusual environments, enclosed habitats Abstract Capsule habitats make it possible for human beings to survive and function in environments that would otherwise be lethal, such as space, the ocean depths,...

FOOD INTAKE AND THE REGULATION OF BODY WEIGHT.
January 1, 2000... Key Words satiety, energy homeostasis, neuropeptides, leptin, insulin, hypothalamus Abstract This chapter reviews the recent literature on hormonal and neural signals critical to the regulation of individual meals and body fat. Rather than...

NEGOTIATION.
January 1, 2000... Key Words bargaining, mental models, ethics, culture, communications media, multiparty negotiation Abstract The first part of this paper traces a short history of the psychological study of negotiation. Although negotiation was an active...

PARENTAL AND CHILD COGNITIONS IN THE CONTEXT OF THE FAMILY.
January 1, 2000... Key Words social cognition, parent-child relations, socialization, attributions, beliefs Abstract Parent and child family-related cognitions are reviewed with respect to (a) their origins, (b) their linkage to affect and behavior, (c)...

NEURAL BASIS OF HEARING IN REAL-WORLD SITUATIONS.
January 1, 2000... Key Words multisource sounds, neuroethology, sound localization, sound pattern recognition Abstract In real-world situations animals are exposed to multiple sound sources originating from different locations. Most vertebrates have little...

EMOTION, REGULATION, AND MORAL DEVELOPMENT.
January 1, 2000... Key Words aggression, empathy, guilt, prosocial behavior, shame Abstract Research and theory on the role of emotion and regulation in morality have received considerable attention in the last decade. Much relevant work has concerned the...

PERSONNEL SELECTION: Looking Toward the Future--Remembering the Past.
January 1, 2000... Key Words job performance, assessment, validity, adverse impact, personality Abstract This chapter reviews personnel selection research from 1995 through 1999. Areas covered are job analysis; performance criteria; cognitive ability and...

MEMORY SYSTEMS IN THE BRAIN.
January 1, 2000... Key Words emotion, hunger, taste, orbitofrontal cortex, amygdala, dopamine, reward, punishment, object recognition, inferior temporal cortex, episodic memory, hippocampus, short term memory, prefrontal cortex Abstract The operation of...

CULTURAL PSYCHOPATHOLOGY: Uncovering the Social World of Mental Illness.
January 1, 2000... Key Words culture, mental disorders, anxiety, schizophrenia, childhood disorders Abstract We review cultural psychopathology research since Kleinman's (1988) important review with the goals of updating past reviews, evaluating current...

ATTITUDE CHANGE: Persuasion and Social Influence.
January 1, 2000... Key Words influence, motives, fear appeals, social identity Abstract This chapter reviews empirical and theoretical developments in research on social influence and message-based persuasion. The review emphasizes research published during...

TOWARD A PSYCHOLOGY OF MEMORY ACCURACY.
January 1, 2000... Key Words memory correspondence, false memory, memory distortion, memory illusions, memory metaphors Abstract There has been unprecedented interest in recent years in questions pertaining to accuracy and distortion in memory. This...

THE EFFECTS OF FAMILY AND COMMUNITY VIOLENCE ON CHILDREN.
January 1, 2000... Key Words child abuse, community violence, children's exposure to marital violence, child maltreatment, developmental psychopathology Abstract This review examines theoretical and empirical literature on children's reactions to three types...

SCIENTIFIC AND SOCIAL SIGNIFICANCE OF ASSESSING INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES: "Sinking Shafts at a Few Critical Points".
January 1, 2000... Key Words differential psychology, general intelligence, total evidence rule, consilience Abstract This chapter reviews empirical findings on the importance of assessing individual differences in human behavior. Traditional dimensions of...

ADULT PSYCHOPATHOLOGY: Issues and Controversies.
January 1, 2000... Key Words mental disorder, pathology, diagnosis, dyscontrol, dysfunction Abstract This review discusses issues and controversies with respect to the construct of a mental disorder, models of etiology and pathology, and domains of...

EVALUATION METHODS FOR SOCIAL INTERVENTION.
January 1, 2000... Key Words program evaluation, treatment effectiveness, outcomes, field experiments, quasi-experiments, analysis of change Abstract Experimental design is the method of choice for establishing whether social interventions have the intended...